- His JFK footage was valued at $16 million (£10 million) by an arbitration panel. The US Government was ordered to pay the amount, the equivalent to $615,384 (£384,615) per second, to the heirs of Abraham Zapruder for taking his footage into the National Archives, where it now resides. It holds the Guinness record of the most expensive reel of film.
- The camera Zapruder used in the filming was a mechanical, spring-wound 8 millimeter Bell & Howell Model 414PD Zoomatic Director with a Varamat 9-27mm f1.8 zoom lens, set for full close-up. The film was Kodachrome II color stock running at 18.3 frames per second. The footage runs only 26 seconds, which is remarkable since each winding of the film's mainspring lasts only 30 seconds.
- Zapruder profited from selling the film of President Kennedy's murder but he was so emotionally shaken by what he had filmed that he did not keep a copy for himself. As a result he often suffered from insomnia and nightmares. He turned down hundreds of offers to discuss the incident.
- Abraham Zapruder (accent on the first syllable, "ZA-pru-der") was the president of Jennifer Juniors, a manufacturer of ladies garments. He was also the man who filmed the only known complete footage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963.
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